Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by marcosdumay on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:56PM
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This is a long going change. Google has been making their search fuzzier for years claiming it gets better results for most people.
For a while I personally experienced better results on the queries I didn't know the exact name of the thing I was searching for. But those days are gone, because nowadays their search is so fuzzy that it can't extract the correct context from those queries.
Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by staticassertion on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:10PM
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Because you aren't supposed to Google search by entering in a bunch of keywords you're supposed to ask Google questions.
Not that your workflow is incorrect, I'm a DDG user and I do the same thing, but that's what Google wants people using their product to do.
Wait, are you saying Google is the new 'Ask Jeeves'?!? :)
Kidding. Anyway, DDG has been my default for months now. Absolutely love it.
The only thing I've really had to change, is to remember to type in a city/ state when looking for local businesses.
Other than that, it feels so great to not be the product!
Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by reportgunner on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:18AM
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If you ever want to get a good google result you "have" "to" "enclose" "every" "single" "word" "in" "separate" "quotes".
Very tedious, especially given it's the current year.
That would be a very simple extension. I imagine it already exists. Or even better a greasemonkey script could do it.
Re:DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
by detail-oriented on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:54PM
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The motivation is always the ability to sell ads against the results.
What was the motive behind this change? Was the previous algorithm really giving people results so bad that Google felt they had to hamstring their flagship product? It seemed to be getting better and better until this...